Scott Gregory

Production Director & host of All This Jazz

Scott Gregory started working at Public Radio Tulsa in 2006; he started listening to public radio circa 1980, when he and NPR both marked their tenth birthdays (although only one of them commemorated the occasion with a party at Skate World). As this station's Production Director, Scott mainly serves as the producer and editor of StudioTulsa, the award-winning interview show hosted by Rich Fisher. Scott also hosts and programs All This Jazz, which airs every Saturday night on Public Radio 89.5-1 from 10pm till midnight (with a 7pm rebroadcast on Sunday nights, on Jazz 89.5-2).

Born and raised here in Tulsa, Scott attended Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri, and thereafter Columbia University. He then punched the clock for a good decade or so in the book-publishing industry, working and living in New York City with youthful abandon, wide-eyed wonder, and humdrum contentment, in pretty much that order.

Scott has written for This Land Press, Boston Review, and other publications. At last check, his three favorite headlines from The Onion are: "National Funk Congress Deadlocked On Get Up/Get Down Issue" (from 1999), "Wikipedia Celebrates 750 Years Of American Independence" (from 2006), and "Nation Trying, Okay?" (from 2012). He and his wife, Kathy, have three children -- and his father, Bob Gregory, enjoyed a long and legendary career in Tulsa radio and television.

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3:25 pm

Tue April 2, 2013

A fund drive is when we ask you, our listeners, to take a moment to consider what this public radio station is worth to you: why it matters to you personally, what you gain from listening to it, why you keep returning to it, and what our programming actually brings to you. Listener support is our leading source of income here at Public Radio Tulsa --- as in, all those forty- and sixty- and hundred-dollar checks that are sent in from listeners throughout our community. (They really do "add up" --- and they really do make it happen.)

Kind of Blog: An Occasional KWGS Jazz Journal

5:04 pm

Fri March 29, 2013

Next time on All This Jazz --- to borrow a phrase from the fantastic soul-jazz guitarist Grant Green (and specifically, from the classic Blue Note LP shown here) --- we'll be "Feelin' the Spirit." Please tune in for the forthcoming edition of our show, which begins at 10pm on Saturday the 30th here on Public Radio 89.5-1.

Kind of Blog: An Occasional KWGS Jazz Journal

5:39 pm

Fri March 22, 2013

Tune in for the upcoming edition of All This Jazz, which begins on Saturday the 23rd at 10pm Central on Public Radio 89.5-1. As is our happy custom each and every Saturday night from ten till midnight, we'll offer modern jazz both recent and classic.

And our second-hour theme for the program will be (cue the chirping birds and budding flowers) "Spring." Thus we'll hear such classic jazz themes as "Joy Spring" and "It Might as Well Be Spring" and "Up Jumped Spring" --- as well as "Spring Ahead" by Dave Douglas and "Passion Spring" by Kenny Dorham (see LP cover herewith).

Kind of Blog: An Occasional KWGS Jazz Journal

1:31 pm

Fri March 15, 2013

Join us for the next All This Jazz, which begins on Saturday the 16th at 10pm Central on Public Radio 89.5-1. We'll serve up modern jazz, both recent and classic, until the midnight hour --- with standout recordings by Sonny Rollins, Robert Hurst, Emily Remler, Ben Riley, Cassandra Wilson (pictured herewith), and many others.

Kind of Blog: An Occasional KWGS Jazz Journal

12:29 pm

Fri March 8, 2013

Join us for the forthcoming edition of All This Jazz, which gets underway on Saturday the 9th at 10pm Central on Public Radio 89.5-1. (Plus we'll re-broadcast this show on Sunday the 10th at 7pm on Jazz 89.5-2, which is our all-jazz-all-the-time HD Radio channel.)

Kind of Blog: An Occasional KWGS Jazz Journal

2:53 pm

Fri March 1, 2013

"We are such stuff / As dreams are made on," as Shakespeare announces in The Tempest. And Sam Spade, the hard-boiled private eye at the center of The Maltese Falcon, famously refers to the eponymous, priceless, black-bird statuette as "the stuff that dreams are made of."

Kind of Blog: An Occasional KWGS Jazz Journal

1:40 pm

Fri February 22, 2013

Tune in, dear listeners, for All This Jazz, which kicks off at 10pm Central, come Saturday the 23rd, on Public Radio 89.5-1. As ever, we'll offer two hours of modern jazz, both recent and classic.

And with the 85th Academy Awards ceremony scheduled for Sunday night on ABC-TV, our second-hour theme on the program will be "Jazz Goes to the Movies." We'll therefore dig some terrific, ever-so-tuneful jazz takes on the music of Max Steiner, Alex North, Jerry Goldsmith, Quincy Jones, and other great film composers.

Kind of Blog: An Occasional KWGS Jazz Journal

5:25 pm

Thu February 14, 2013

Join us for All This Jazz, our weekly, two-hour, indefatigably catchy rundown of modern jazz, both recent and classic, which begins at 10pm Central on Saturday the 16th on Public Radio 89.5-1. (Also, there's a re-airing of our show scheduled for Sunday night, at 7pm, on Jazz 89.5-2, which is our station's all-jazz HD Radio channel.)

For our second-hour theme on the 16th, we'll survey tunes from a wide range of jazz players with February birthdays.

Kind of Blog: An Occasional KWGS Jazz Journal

9:50 pm

Fri February 8, 2013

Please join us for the next edition of All This Jazz, which begins at 10pm Central on Saturday the 9th, right here on Public Radio 89.5-1.

We'll deliver modern jazz, both recent and classic, from the likes of Tony Williams, Kurt Rosenwinkel, Sidney Bechet, Donald Harrison, Paul Motian, David Murray, Freddie Hubbard, and many others.

And in an all-but-obligatory-yet-hopefully-not-too-cheesy nod to Valentine's Day, the second-hour theme for our show will be "heart" tunes: "My Foolish Heart," "My Heart Stood Still," "Someday, Sweetheart," etc.